Dear Friends,

After an amazing weekend we had in Tarifa during the contest, with poniente in the beginning that shifted into levante during the weekend, we could make a great show on the beach, thanks to the criteria they came out, looking for the most complete rider, counting 45 porcent for power manovuers, 45 porcent for old school jumps, and 10 porcent innovation, the crew on the beach really enjoyed and the riders also because was kind of funny to do both at the same time :). The singles went pretty good for me, the levante still wasnt that strong so i could combine both styles pretty good until i got to the finals meeting up Youri Zoon, after meeting strong riders like Mike Bloomval or Alex Pastor.

In doubles the levante was literally “Knucking”,  and super gusty, at the point that i couldnt even go unhook with my 7 m, so didnt get the chance to score for power mobes so end it up 3rd losing against Cesar Portas, that was riding pretty solid on those conditions.

The final results:

1st Youri Zoon

2nd Cesar Portas

3rd Alvaro Onieva

4th Alex Pastor

Dear Friends,

After a couple of days riding at home, and getting back a little bit to the freestyle world :D, here below i post one of the trick i’ve been working hard the last days, was a bit mission to land it, because you have to be very fast turning the hibs to complete the 540 while the kite is very low. It always feels great to land new stuff, specially when you dont hang from the kite at all.

The season of wind is been great here, wind almost everyday, proper conditions to get ready for the invitational event my new sponsor J&B is organizing in Tarifa “Masters of Kite” for the 2nd until 5th of September. Im sure is going to be some action there so if you are around dont miss it!

all the best,

Dear Friends,

yeah, I know, I’ve been away for a pretty long time… Chilling, travelling and putting a lot of effort into my new video…. until someone stole my laptop and now my whole project is gone:-(! So it will take me a little while until I get finished again. Suprise suprise, there will be a lot of lifestyle shots with skating, cable and some new tricks that no one did before in kiting!

But here i copy one of the trick i filmed during my last session at home. I really enjoy kiting without a wetsuit again after a long time !

I’ll keep you posted!

Dear Friends,

Proudly i can present today the wakestyle video i was working a while ago, having flat water, kickers and slider sessions in the northwest of Brazil.

www.alvaronieva.com/ Enter Flash Site/Videos/Another Dimension

Hope you enjoy it!,

Rock on!

Hey Friends,

In the middle of December, the wind dies in the northwest of Brazil, and letting come the clouds for the rain season.So we are pretty much done in here, we have been working hard the past month, shooting all over the place and pushing a lot other disciplines that definitively counts to contribute for the sport, like wakeskating and strapless surf, there is so much empty fields on this disciplines, that it’s fun to innovate new tricks on this ones…I’m stoked with the stuff we got it in here, so many different places, new tricks, and the most important one, the variety…  now its time to edit it with a classic ROCK ‘N Roll song!.

Yeah right!

Once again, we were scoping different points for kitesurf all over the coast, and we decided it was time to hit one place in Tabuba, were our friends owns a great restaurant pretty modern right on the point, its a power beach break right in front of the shore,so it was great to film it on the sunset, with the sun in the back. We got a couple of good turns, specially from Dani, he just smack the wave so hard that it looks insane.

We Definitively are enjoying this trip more that any other trip before,because we dont get stuck in any discipline or style, we are just open to everything and get the most fun of it, combining all different aspects of kiteboarding…

Today, the sun came out bringing some good light and good wind, so we drove all the way to the classic Taiba lagoon pretty early in the morning to get a Regular sess in the  flat water, and then it came the killer kicker sess in front of Taiba Village called Taibinha.The tide was high, and the sun in the back, perfect timing to get the action right in the middle of the Palm trees, and kickers breaking up glassy, so it was super fun to ride it in there and for the next days the ties are proper to hit it again, at least two times more, so we will make sure we have all the sickest action coming out from there, the beauty of this place it never ends…

Twitter is without a doubt the best way to share and discover what is happening in any time with people that you are interest, family, friends, pro riders. So for follow me closer my actions in any time follow me @AlvaroOnix

Hey yo,

The wind season here is reaching the end, now that we are in the middle of December, the winds are blowing lighter and swells are rolling more often so its being a good opportunity to have decent waves to surf with and without the kite. Today we drove down to the most famous place here to catch waves with the kite, Pecem.

The waves weren’t so big, but still was enough to have a fun session with all my country mates, its always lovely to hang out with the people you really know, always kidding and playing around.

So kind of mellow today, hope next days mother nature brings more swell and we can have a better surf  video footage.

Ride on

After being riding for awhile the last days in here and having half video in the back, it was a day for rest and do a very important thing for the vid, lifestyle shots, so I and my mate Dani Alvarez, a local boy that that i recruited, has some roots in skate and surfing background, so to film with him its like I’m filming myself, good understanding, we got a perfect sunset, clear skies, green light for filming interviews and funny stuff that is going to come out soon, also in my interview i kind of revealing myself into whats going on with the kite industry, big brands and specially people that never felt the sport in the heart, don’t want to mention names… has my riders of the sport underpaid and that touch me pretty deep…I will reveal myself in the right moment, to have the power enough to accomplished our tight mission, to be recognized as a serious boardsport.

Just Enjoy.

Alvaro de guevara